The Whispering Verses Chapter 2238: Sparrow Hamilton Notes

This time the countess’ divination went very smoothly. Even though she didn’t know much basic information, based on her understanding of Shad, she knew that things related to this man were definitely not trivial, so she made her first visit to Shad. In front of me, I guessed the truth right away:

"Is this the house of the Ace of Gray Gloves, the Grey-headed Eagle?"

"Yes, but that's not entirely true. We generally call such a house a safe house."

Xia De corrected:

"When writing [Dice Stories], you knew that I had relations with the secret service organizations of both countries, so you shouldn't be surprised that I know this place, right?"

The witch blinked:

"I'm not surprised that Gray Eagle's safe house is in a place like this. You know, he is also a legend to me. When the nobles of Moon Bay wanted to seek independence, Gray Eagle murdered many people in succession. When he was an important person, I was still a little girl who didn't understand anything. To me, he was the same as those big bad wolves in fairy tales who kidnapped disobedient children."

She said with a smile, and then felt incredible again:

"Speaking of which, the Grey-headed Eagle actually died? When did this happen? There was no news about such a big matter within Kasenlik? Wait a minute, I remember hearing that some time ago The news about gray eagles is just anecdotal, but all evidence shows that gray eagles are still active."

"Yes, you are absolutely right."

Xia De nodded, still looking at every closed door on the second floor:

"The gray eagle is indeed dead. It died last summer."

"Then why."

"The Grey-Headed Eagle is indeed still active. Someone has inherited this codename and is active. And that person——"

He turned to face the Countess, who pointed to Shade hesitantly:

"Is it you?"

"Yes."

Shad nodded and continued to observe the doors, while Miss Belindel took a deep breath:

"Yes, I found that I was not very surprised. After all, compared with other things, the identity of an ordinary person is nothing. So, does your coming to Yuewan this time have anything to do with this identity?"

"It has nothing to do with the grey-headed eagle. The grey-headed eagle actually shouldn't appear in Moon Bay. He has other tasks. Oh, I found it, here."

He walked to the broom room, removed all the things inside, and then groped on the wall of the narrow broom room.

"Did you murder the gray eagle?"

Miss Belindel asked again curiously, and Shade immediately shook his head:

"Of course not, but he did die in front of me. No one knew about his death at the time. He made arrangements for his funeral before his death. I will go to the cemetery on the New Year's Day and other days. Visiting him."

At this point, Shade was startled, and then realized that he had forgotten to visit Detective Sparrow in the cemetery on his death anniversary. Shade suddenly felt regretful, and at the same time he wondered what he was doing at that time, and how could he forget such an important thing.

[You were probably "busy" attending your birthday party at the time. Those girls were not easy to deal with. 】

"She" reminded with a smile, and then Shade understood why he had forgotten such an important day. Of course, Miss Belindel was behind him at this time, so she couldn't see his expression.

Soon, Shade found an area that could be pressed on the wall of the broom room. With a slight exertion, an extremely narrow passage appeared on the innermost wall of the broom room.

Even standard-sized people like Shade and Miss Belinder must turn sideways to get in there, and behind the passage is a secret room about the size of a cloakroom. It is a helpless move to build the secret room so small. If the secret room is too large, a concerned person can tell at a glance that there is a missing area in the house.

Just as Shade once thought, Detective Sparrow sent someone here to deal with it before he died. The small room has a small bed, chairs, small tables and numerous bookshelves made of metal pipes and metal plates. Today, the furniture is still there, but some of the materials and documents on the bookshelves have obviously been destroyed.

There were sparse traces in the files that should have been placed closely together, and the remaining files, after Shade and Miss Belindel looked through them, were all investigation reports about the seven major families in Yuewan City. As well as transcripts of some confidential documents from Yuewan City Hall.

"There is actually information about my family. Let me take a look. Oh, this is a photo from my eighth birthday. Can he find this kind of photo?"

The witch was greatly surprised. When she saw Sha De stretching his head to see, she pushed his head back:

“My childhood was different from what it is now, so I’m not allowed to watch it.”

She put the photo back into the file and decided to get rid of all the information after asking for Shade's opinion.

The remaining information is absolutely precious. Gray Eagle was able to collect such detailed information back then. In addition to his own contribution, the entire Gray Glove organization must have also put in a lot of effort.

The fact that these materials can be left behind shows that the destroyed materials are even more precious.

Shad tried listening with "Echoes of the Past", and after making sure he heard nothing, he asked the witch to do a divination.

The latter immediately smiled:

"Look, divination is indeed very useful."

Because no cyclomancer was involved, the divination was successful:

"Flame, those materials were burned directly. The place of destruction was in this house, but not here. This place is too closed. No one would be stupid enough to light the paper on fire in the secret room."

After her confirmation, the place where those documents were set alight was the kitchen on the first floor of the house, and the time was at the turn of spring and summer last year, just before Detective Sparrow died. Since the house still had gas, the people who came here to process documents at that time naturally used the stove.

However, when the two came to the kitchen, they found that the kitchen was indeed cleaned very clean. There was no possibility that "the paper was not completely burned, leaving small pieces of paper recording important information".

"Check for me if there is any fly ash."

After thinking about it carefully, Shade said again. Although Miss Belindel didn't know what he wanted to do, she still nodded in agreement.

Although Shade's "Breath of Time" can turn back time, it is impossible for him to turn back time by turning back the time on the table just because a certain book was once placed on the table and now the book is taken away. Reappear.

To repair an item through "Breath of Time", you must at least have the remains of that thing, no matter how small the remains are, it's just a matter of how much spirit is consumed.

Fortunately, although the person who handled the documents did not carelessly leave unburned paper, the cleaning person was not particularly careful. In the end, they found a piece of paper under the sewer and trash can. Small pieces of burnt paper ashes.

Xia De put the two pieces of ashes together on the stove, then took out the "Lord of Immortality", put it on his right hand and rotated it, then took a deep breath:

"The breath of time."

The current maximum limit of Breath of Time's ability to turn back time is three years, so it is quite effective for things that were burned more than a year ago. From the witch's perspective, as Shade inhaled, two almost imperceptible streams of gray air rushed into his nostrils, and the two small pieces of ashes were actually reversed in time and restored to their original state. appearance.

The two pieces of ashes seemed to come from the same item, because what was lying on the stove at the moment was a notebook with a brown leather cover. The side of the notebook was fastened with a magnetic metal buckle. After Shade opened it, he saw that as expected, all the words inside were unidentifiable:

"Encrypted ciphertext."

"There seems to be something stuck inside."

Miss Belindel reminded, Shade then flipped back and found a total of 3 photos in the notebook. These photos were all landscape photos, very similar to the ones Shade found in the mezzanine of his attic, and seemed to be places Detective Sparrow had visited.

The witch stretched her head aside and said:

"This is Belindre's Big Ben. Look at the banner hanging here. I was a little girl back then. This seems to be the city of Gondor, the steel city in the east of Delarion."

Shad knew this city. Mr. Johnson at the garbage disposal station he connected with in Tobesk once mentioned that Gray Eagle stole a batch of special alloys for casting steam cannons in the city of Gondor. Smelting records, but that was also many years ago.

"What's the last one?"

He asked again. The first two photos were cityscapes, while the last photo was taken in the mountains and forests. Even from the yellowed black and white photo, it can be seen that it was taken at night, and the only conspicuous landmark in the photo is the side of the tower in the upper left corner, hidden in the mountains.

Miss Belindel thought for a while, and just when Shade thought she couldn't recognize it, she suddenly waved her hand:

"Remember, although I have never been here, I have seen such scenery in my teacher's travel notes. This should be Mount Karas in Delrayon. Look at that high tower. It was last spring The collapsed ancient ruins can no longer be seen."

"What?"

Xia De suddenly turned his head and looked at her:

"Karas Mountain? The Karas Mountain with the ruins of the Moon Tower? Are you sure this photo is the scenery of that mountain?"

Miss Belindel nodded hesitantly:

"Sure. I've never seen you so surprised since I've known you. Why, is that mountain important?"

Of course that mountain is not important. What is important is the ruins of the ancient Moon Tower. Of course, it is now the ruins of the tower. Although the stranger "awakened" on the shining silver moon in the midsummer of 1853, he had always suspected that he had actually come to this world in the spring of 1853, or that this body had done some very important thing in that spring. matter.

"I never thought before that he actually went to Karas Mountain."

Xia De felt a strong sense of disbelief, and then asked the witch:

"Is there any way to predict the specific time this photo was taken?"